One of my mates from grade/high school married a woman who became a JW, who witnessed to me in 1980 and in turn I became a JW (1981-1998). I left, she didn't, and she never spoke to me again. I have recently rekindled my friendship with my old schoolfriend. I got an email from him today, first in several years. His wife is still a JW, but they don't talk about it. However, one thing that pisses him off is that she won't visit her son's house, as he and his girlfriend live together. Now the son, Chris, was never a JW and never wanted to be, so why is he not treated like any other "worldly" person. If the wife, Stella, was calling on an unmarried couple she would go into their home, would she not? I have heard of this before when someone was raised JW, never baptized (and thus never DF'd) but "knew better" and that not visiting the home was to remind him of his "bad ways". I don't agree, of course, but I accept that. But in Chris' case he never even went to a meeting, why should he be held to some level of conduct that he has no real sense of? How his mother could think that a loving act is beyond me.
So here's my question:
Does anyone have a scripture or Wt reference that I could have my friend give his wife to have her get the sense of this, that she is going "beyond the writtien word"?
Thanks!
Glen